==================================================================== Cover Pages Newsletter January 07, 2003 Website: http://xml.coverpages.org Hosted by: OASIS Sponsored by: Global eXchange Services, ISOGEN International, SAP, and Sun Microsystems ==================================================================== CONTENTS Featured News Stories Selected Articles and Papers Selected from the Press Events Cover Pages Sponsors -------------------------------------------------------------------- Featured News Stories -------------------------------------------------------------------- Recently featured news stories from the Cover Pages news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/news.html OR http://xml.coverpages.org/covernewsTOP.html Xerox Announces Circus-DTE Programming Language for Document Transformation. An experimental programming language developed at Xerox Research Centre of Europe in Grenoble, France has been released for testing. Circus-DTE is a new, innovative programming language designed for document transformation processing. It natively supports XML (DTDs) and is particularly suited to data processing or the transformation of structured documents: it automatically validates output results for reliable input into other applications. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-01-08-b.html OASIS Forms Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Technical Committee. OASIS members have formed a new technical committee to establish a common identification scheme for distributed directory services. The Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Technical Committee purposes to create a URI scheme and a corresponding URN namespace for distributed directory services that enable the identification of resources (including people and organizations) and the sharing of data across domains, enterprises, and applications. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-01-08-a.html Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Provides XML Interchange Format for Public Safety Reports. A draft version 0.6 of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) has been published by the CAP Techincal Working Group, including an XML Schema, data dictionary, and other documentation. CAP is an open, non- proprietary standard data interchange format that can be used to collect all types of hazard warnings and reports locally, regionally and nationally, for input into a wide range of information-management and warning dissemination systems. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-01-06-a.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected Articles and Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------- Selections of abstracted and annotated articles/clippings at: http://xml.coverpages.org/articles.html http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings.html "Tool Kit Combines Grid Technology, Web Services." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (January 08, 2003). http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,813305,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#GT3 "Converting RELAX NG to W3C XML Schema." By James J. Clark (Director, Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd, Thailand). Presentation given at the XML 2002 Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA. December 11, 2002. http://thaiopensource.com/relaxng/convert-to-xsd-talk.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#ClarkXSD "The Identity Web. An Overview of XNS and the OASIS XRI TC XML Working Group." By Marc LeMaitre (VP Technology Strategy, OneName Corporation). December 17, 2002. Presented to the XML.gov XML Working Group. http://xml.coverpages.org/LeMaitre-XRI.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#LeMaitre "Circus-DTE Programming Language Coming to Town." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (January 06, 2003). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/03/01/06/030106hncircus.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#KrillDTE "IBM: Xperanto Rollout To Start In Early 2003. Long-Promised Information Integrator on the Horizon." By Michael Vizard and Barbara Darrow. In CRN (January 03, 2003). http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=39187 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#Xperanto "Liberty Alliance Foreshadows Products, Services." By Paul Roberts. In InfoWorld (January 07, 2003). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/03/01/07/030107hnliberty.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#RobertsLA "OASIS Ponders PKI Security for Web Services." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (January 07, 2003). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/03/01/07/030107hnoasispki.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#KrillPKI "Common Presence and Instant Messaging (CPIM) Presence Information Data Format." By Hiroyasu Sugano (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd), Shingo Fujimoto (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd), Graham Klyne (Clearswift Corporation), Adrian Bateman (VisionTech Limited), Wayne Carr (Intel Corporation), and Jon Peterson (NeuStar, Inc). IETF Network Working Group, Internet-Draft. Reference: 'draft-ietf-impp-cpim-pidf-07.txt'. December 2002, expires June 2003. XML Schema Definitions in Section 4; XML DTD in Appendix A. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-impp-cpim-pidf-07.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#cpim-pidf07 "Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA). XML and Web Services Across the Federal Government: An Overview of Vision and Progress." By Bob Haycock, Program Manager, FEA-PMO (Federal Enterprise Architecture - Program Management Office). Presentation slides (in PDF format) from the XML 2002 Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA. December 2002. 31 pages. http://xml.coverpages.org/Haycock-FEA200212.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#Haycock "Taking a Balanced Look at Standards. [Above the Noise.]" Editorial by Ephraim Schwartz. In InfoWorld (January 06, 2003), page 8. http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/03/01/06/030106opnoise.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#Schwartz "Thomson Financial Invests in Web Services." By Mark Jones and Mark Barbagallo. In InfoWorld (December 20, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/20/021220hnbarbagallo.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#Barbagallo "Microsoft Boosts Focus on XML-Based Services." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (January 06, 2003), page 11. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,808306,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#TaftXSharp "Returning Creativity to the Commons." By Richard Koman. From The O'Reilly Network. January 03, 2003. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2003/01/03/cc.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#Koman "XML Meets the Data Warehouse." By Jack Vaughan and Mike Bucken. In Application Development Trends Volume 10, Number 1 (January 2003), pages 27-30. Cover Story, Data Management. http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7116 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#Vaughan "Open for Business. [Open Source]" By Tom Yager. In InfoWorld (January 06, 2003), pages 17-21. http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/03/01/06/030106plplatforms.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#Yager "Here's What's Wrong With XML-Defined Standards." By Rita Knox. Gartner Research Note. 30-December-2002. Reference: COM-18-7987. 4 pages. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tax/200301/pdf00000.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#Knox "Incident Object Description and Exchange Format Data Model and Extensible Markup Language (XML) Document Type Definition." By Jan Meijer (SURFnet), Roman Danyliw (CERT Coordination Center), and Yuri Demchenko (Terena). IETF INCH Working Group, Internet-Draft. Reference: 'draft-ietf-inch-iodef-00.txt'. October 29, 2002, expires April 29, 2003. 114 pages, with 19 references. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-inch-iodef-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#iodef00 "Intrusion Detection Message Exchange Format Data Model and Extensible Markup Language (XML) Document Type Definition." By David A. Curry (Merrill Lynch & Co.) and Herve Debar (France Telecom R & D). IETF Intrusion Detection Working Group. Reference: draft-ietf-idwg-idmef- xml-09.txt. November 8, 2002, expires May 7, 2003. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idwg-idmef-xml-09.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#idmef09 "Named Character Elements for XML." By Anthony Coates and Zarella Rendon. From XML.com. January 02, 2003. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/01/02/xmlchar.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#CoatesRendon "Never Mind the Namespaces: An XSLT RSS Client." By Bob DuCharme. From XML.com. January 02, 2003. http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2003/01/02/tr.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#DuCharme "'Displaying' XLinks?" By John E. Simpson. From XML.com. January 02, 2003. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/01/02/qa.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#Simpson "Web Services Security in 2003." By Ray Wagner (Research Director, Gartner). In CSO Online (January 02, 2003). http://www.csoonline.com/analyst/report709.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#Wagner2003 "Java Standard 170: New Era Looms for Content Management Industry." By Dave Cadoff. In Serverworld Magazine Volume 17, Number 1 (January 02, 2003), pages 18, 21. http://www.serverworldmagazine.com/monthly/2003/01/java.shtml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200301.html#Cadoff "ISOGEN Internationalization (i18n) Support Library." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200301.html#clip2003-01-08-b "Update of Jing and Trang from James Clark." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200301.html#clip2003-01-08-a -------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected from the Press -------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html "Uniform Code Council's U Connect Conference to Educate Supply Chain Professionals May 21-23, 2003. Humor Columnist Dave Barry to Speak." http://xml.coverpages.org/UCC-AnnualUConnect.html "OASIS Members Launch Effort to Establish Common Identification Scheme for Distributed Directory Services. Advanced Micro Devices, DataPower, EDS, Novell, Neustar, NRI Pacific, OneName, Visa International, and Others Collaborate to Define Extensible Resource Identifier." http://xml.coverpages.org/OASIS-XRI-TC.html "Xerox Makes New Programming Language for Document Transformations Available for 'Test Drive'. Early Adopters Can Try Out Promising Software, Provide Feedback On Emerging Technologies at Xerox-RIT Site." http://xml.coverpages.org/Circus-DTE-Ann.html "Liberty Alliance Reports Majority of Sponsor Members Polled Plan to Implement Liberty Specifications in 2003, Adoption Plans Span Industries. Alliance Also Introduces 22 New Members, Bringing Total Membership to 150." http://xml.coverpages.org/LibertyImplementations2003.html "OASIS Members Form Technical Committee to Advance PKI Adoption for Secure Transactions. Baltimore Technologies, Computer Associates, Entrust, KPMG, Neucom, RSA Security, Sun Microsystems, VeriSign, Wells Fargo, and Others Work to Facilitate Interoperability of Foundational Security Standard." http://xml.coverpages.org/OASIS-PKI-TC.html "Chemicals Sector Launches Cyber-Security Practices, Standards and Technology Initiative under CIDX." http://xml.coverpages.org/CIDX-ChemicalsSecurity.html "Open Network for Commerce Exchange Announces Web Services Project. Project Enabled by Next Generation Internet (NGI) Grant from CommerceNet and the State of California." http://xml.coverpages.org/ONCE-WS2003.html "Infomosaic Releases Java Support for SecureXML Digital Signature." http://xml.coverpages.org/InfomosaicJavaSecureXML.html "E Team First to Offer Interoperable Incident Management System for Homeland Security. Release 2 - Government Edition Enables All Players Critical to an Emergency Response to Collaborate in Real Time." http://xml.coverpages.org/ETeam-GovEdition.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- Events -------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html Uniform Code Council Annual U Connect Conference. May 21 - 23, 2003. Walt Disney World's Swan and Dolphin Resort, Orlando, FL, USA. http://xml.coverpages.org/UCC-AnnualUConnect.html http://www.uc-council.org/uconnect/index.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#ucc-UConnect Conference on Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and EU. March. 17 - 19, 2003. Cafritz Conference Center, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. http://www.egovos.org/ http://www.egovos.org/march-2003/cfp.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#openSourceGov CEN/ISSS Open Meeting on "Digital Rights Management CEN/ISSS Report". February 07, 2003. Diamant Business and Conference Centre, Bld. Auguste Reyers 80.B, Brussels, Belgium. http://www.cenorm.be/isss/DRM/Invitation.htm http://www.cenorm.be/isss/DRM/agenda_open_meeting.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/drm.html#CEN-ISSS-DRM TDWI World Conference Winter 2003. February 9 - 14, 2003. New Orleans Marriott, New Orleans, LA, USA. http://www.dw-institute.com/education/conferences/neworleans2003/index.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#tdwiWinter03 O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference 2003. "Practical Tools For Innovation." February 3 - 6, 2003. The Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA, USA. http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/21/sessions.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#OReilly-BIOCON OMG Integrate 2003. January 28 - 29, 2003. Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, Burlingame, CA, USA. http://xml.coverpages.org/OMG-Integrate2003.html http://www.integrate2003.com/index.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#OMG-Integrate2003 SAINT-2003. The 2003 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet. January 27 - 31, 2003. Renaissance WorldGate Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.saint2003.org/ http://www.saint2003.org/contribution.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/drm.html#saint2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cover Pages Sponsors -------------------------------------------------------------------- Publication costs for the Cover Pages website and for this newsletter are underwritten by OASIS Members committed to providing this OASIS resource freely to the public: Sun Microsystems, Inc. URL: http://sun.com SAP URL: http://www.sap.com ISOGEN International LLC URL: http://www.isogen.com Global eXchange Services URL: http://www.gxs.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list send a post to: